Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

4 reviews

lolatarantula's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

I cant talk about this book for a myriad of reasons because it's a good fucking book in the same way Blood Meridian is a good book. Like, it's an amazing book but I don't think many people would enjoy this book. Anyway, look up the warnings before you read this. It isn't for everyone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, War, Death, Rape, Sexual content, Murder, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Colonisation, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Racism

marxxx's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

3.75

most of this book left me sitting with a weird discomfort—the narrator and his partner are both complicit in a lot of really heinous things, and violence against Black and Indigenous people abounds. but I found it informative, and found the discomfort to be something worth examining, and the end of the book made me cry. 

The writing style takes some getting used but it adds something very unique and personal to the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Torture, Colonisation, War, Genocide, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Violence, Excrement, and Gun violence

veronicats's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Animal death, Death, Racial slurs, Excrement, Genocide, Medical trauma, Blood, Child death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Gore, Kidnapping, Violence, Vomit, and War

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Hate crime, Confinement, Outing, Rape, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Deadnaming, and Sexual assault

lavendl's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, War, Racism, Gun violence, Genocide, Death, and Colonisation

Moderate: Child death, Colonisation, Vomit, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

Minor: Alcohol and Cannibalism